First post, by nathanieltolbert
Hello again everyone. I am again at an impasse for an old board I am working with. This one is again an issue of finding drivers. I'm a little flummoxed but not for the same reason as the Packard Bell Sound Card. As the title says I have a PC Chips M863G V56.1C mATX board that just arrived that I am working with. The board boots perfectly, and I understand the caps issue, and I will keep a close eye on them. After getting Windows 98 installed I decided to go find the drivers for the board. Many thanks to the user here who uploaded all of the SIS drivers to an archive and placed them here for use. From that I was able to get the IDE and AGP driver as well as the LAN drivers. However, the audio chip for the board is not a SiS branded audio chip. Here's where the first step of obscurity starts for me. Multiple websites list the audio chip as a C-Media CMI9738 4 Channel Integrated Audio. I had a jump over to the C-Media website and the highest device they have a driver listed for is a CM8788 and is listed for dedicated sound cards rather than integrated audio chips. Looking around even Google is like, 'Do you mean C-Media CMI8738?' Now all of those driver guide sites claim they have drivers, but I don't really know if there is any accuracy to their claim. A long time ago I used one of those sites to get a driver from something and it wasn't the right driver. So, I have a couple questions. First, is the CMI9738 a real card or are all of these websites incorrect with their naming on the integrated audio. Second, if it's right, where can I find a driver for it, or if it's wrong what driver does it actually use? I used to have no issue finding drivers for everything that I work with, but I have found the more I move away from the mainstream common parts, like creative and ATI and nVidia, etc., as expected drivers are more difficult to procure. Any advice would be very much appreciated. I don't currently have a PCI Sound Card that I can install to bypass the built in audio. Thank you for taking a look and offering suggestions and help. I very much appreciate it.
Regards,
Nathan